Some Needed Rest

[ 3/17/1482 - Same Day ]

[ Word Count 1268 ]

" Hello" - Speech

' Hello' - Thoughts

* Boom* - Sound

Italics - Flashbacks

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( Achilles' Pov )

" So you wanna train Marco in the six powers?" Bullet asked me while messing around with his devil fruit powers. Occasionally I would give him ideas on how to use his powers like trying to make armor similar to the first Iron Man armor.

But I do try not to give out too many ideas since I'm not an engineer. And Bullet doesn't need advanced weapons to become strong. His pure brute strength and use of his devil fruit war was far more than enough, or at least for now they were.

" Pretty much, yeah. The phoenix fruit is powerful, especially in its defensive capabilities but it lacks offensive abilities."

" I figured if he learned the Six Powers, he can make up for the lack of offensive moves, and by trying to master them, Marco gets all the other training he needs," I said fiddling around with a silver orb that I was holding.

" That could honestly work and mastering them isn't that hard," Bullet said after a while finishing creating silver arm plates.

" Ya, that's because you have some next-level talent, and experience which helped you learn it so fast," I told him as I sulked a little, due to the fact he had learned two of the techniques faster than I did.

[A/N: Bullet doesn't necessarily have more talent than Achilles. He just learned them faster because Bullet already had real combat experience and was far stronger than when Achilles started to learn.]

" But that's enough about Marco."

" I had a question I had been meaning to ask you for some time. Do you know anything about the Hutt Slave Organization?" As I mentioned that name the atmosphere in the room completely changed; going from a chill relaxing atmosphere to a more tense one.

" Where did you hear the name from?" He asked as his brows furrowed.

" Yesterday when we freed Marco, there was this guy I fought that said he was from the Hutt organization."

" The Hutt Slave Trade organization is one of the biggest organizations in the North Blue right below the Marines. They specialize in capturing people from islands that aren't part of the World Government."

" Their main target are kids who are from rare species or who ate some kind of devil fruit. From what you said they seemed to know about Marco. So they were probably the same people who attacked and captured him the first time as well. It makes the most sense." Bullet said surprising me a little with how much he knew about this group.

" That's quite a lot to take in. I'm surprised you know so much about them."

" Galzbrug buys kids from them. How do you think Galzbrug got so many child soldiers? Some other countries in the North Blue make dealings with them as well. And it's not even just slaves, weapons, and even information as well. The Hutt organization is everywhere in the underworld in this part of the sea."

*Sigh*

I took a deep breath after I sighed hearing everything Bullet told me.

" So long as Marco is on the crew, they're going to target us. Not to mention we destroyed one of their auctions and ruined a whole slave operation as well."

" So tell me how strong are the members we are dealing with here?" I asked, knowing damn well we were not just gonna hand over Marco to them.

" The members aren't that strong individually but it's their connection that makes them strong. They can pay or have dirt on anyone to do their bidding is what makes them strong. Whether that's marines, pirates, or bounty hunters."

" I see… if that's the case then we just kill the main guy in command then. And that should solve the problem. As for what they throw at us, we can deal with them." I said to Bullet with a confident look.

" We could do that but we need to know the location of their headquarters. No one in the North Blue even knows where it's located."

" That's fine, we can just drag out the information from some of their top subordinates. I'm sure they will attack us eventually." I said before I heard Marco yelling he was hungry.

" Seems like it's almost lunchtime. I'll cook us something." I said to him walking out of his room.

[ 3 Hours Later- Evening ]

" Woah, is that Palm Island?" Marco said in amazement looking at a giant archipelago in the shape of a palm island.

[ Palm Island > Image Here ]

"It's the biggest archipelago in the whole North Blue. The different islands have different specialties ranging from a farm island, a fashion island, amusement island, and pretty much anything else you can imagine." Bullet said to Marco as we docked the ship at one of the many ports.

" Both marines and pirates came to a truce not to fight here as this island is too important for both sides. One of the islands here serves as a marine base and another island serves as a pirate area." I said with us three getting down from the ship.

" So which island are we going to?" Marco asked us since we didn't tell him which island we are going to. I didn't even tell Bullet either as I wanted to surprise both of them.

" This one?" I answered him pointing towards an island where you could see multiple tall roller coasters and a waterslide that's about 60 feet tall along with other rides and a giant pool as well.

" Wait, why are we going there? We are pirates." Marco said, trying to act like a proper 'pirate.'

Though he was doing a rather terrible job, it was clear to see he was excited by the prospect of being able to ride some of those rides.

" What's up with the gloomy look? It will be fun, trust me. I came here before with my parents." I said before I dragged Bullet and Marco towards a gondola boat that will take us to the amusement island.

[ 30 Minutes Later ]

" WOOOOOO" Marco screamed in joy as he was riding a roller coaster. I could hear his scream from a mile away. He was pretty excited as this was the first time he was on a rollercoaster. Also, his age probably had something to do with it, as I didn't think someone who could fly would be that excited by a rollercoaster.

I was swimming in the pool. Bullet was laying down on top of a giant yellow inflatable in the pool.

" This is pretty nice," Bullet said while moving the inflatable duck closer to me.

"That's why I wanted to come here. Just for us to relax and not worry about anything for a while."

" We have been fighting and just sailing without breaks. So I figured we deserved a vacation of some sort. And this place just came to mind." I said as I stopped moving around the pool.

" Yeah, it wasn't a bad idea. I appreciate it. Thanks" Bullet replied, looking up towards the sky.

"It's my job as the Captain to take care of the rest of the crew. No need to thank me."

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